....newly released emails between Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times's national security and intelligence reporter, and CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf. The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd
was planning to write a column on the CIA's role in pumping the
film-makers with information about the Bin Laden raid in order to boost
Obama's re-election chances, and was apparently worried about how Dowd's
column would reflect on them. On 5 August 2011 (a Friday night), Harf
wrote an email to Mazzetti with the subject line: "Any word??",
suggesting, obviously, that she and Mazzetti had already discussed
Dowd's impending column and she was expecting an update from the NYT
reporter.

A mere two minutes after the CIA spokeswoman sent this
Friday night inquiry, Mazzetti responded. He promised her that he was
"going to see a version before it gets filed", and assured her that
there was likely nothing to worry about:

"My sense is
there a very brief mention at bottom of column about CIA ceremony, but
that [screenwriter Mark] Boal also got high level access at Pentagon."

She then replied with this instruction to Mazzetti: "keep me posted", adding that she "really appreciate[d] it"....